Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Chick-fil-A wants to serve its chicken sandwiches in Asia and Europe (WSJ)
• Banking on the seaweed rush (Hakai Magazine)
• The perils of executive typecasting (McKinsey)
• The supply chain needs a permanent seat at retail's top table (Bain)
• How sugar substitutes sneak into foods and affect your health (Washington Post)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Supermarkets are having a fire sale on data about you (The Markup)
• Why crop nutrients are suddenly political (Bloomberg)
• Walgreens CEO bets on doctors over drugstores (WSJ)
• Tim Hortons turfs key store owner amid battle with franchisees over profitability (Globe and Mail)
• The pandemic sent US consumers back to the sugar bowl (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Stores do double duty as distribution centers for online orders (WSJ)
• Designing out of difficult times (McKinsey)
• The price of 'sugar free' (The Guardian)
• Rapid-delivery startup Getir buys rival Gorillas in $1.2 billion deal (Bloomberg)
• Costco sales growth cools as customers shift discretionary spending (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: The presumption of guilt (Medium)
• Inside the fierce, messy fight over health sugar tech (MIT Technology Review)
• 'Cheap as chips' no longer true in U.K. as prices soar for a favourite meal (NYT)
• Amazon drone crashes hit Jeff Bezos' delivery dreams (Bloomberg)
• The mystery of the missing Georgia peach ice cream sandwiches at the Masters (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Chocolate makers are having a hard time cutting down on sugar (WSJ)
• Why Hudson Bay's unpaid rent puts landlords in a difficult position (Globe and Mail)
• A day in the life of an Amazon warehouse worker (WSJ)
• As customers move online, so does the holiday shopping season (NYT)
• Amazon's $3,000 signing bonuses irk workers who got $10 coupons (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• How a tweet led to a shortage at Popeyes (NYT)
• The war on sugar hits the juice box (WSJ)
• Rose berries have arrived (The New Yorker)
• Meat companies aren't worried about demand amid vegan burger boom (Bloomberg)
• Retailers struggled during boom times. What happens if there's a recession (WP)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Momofuku's secret sauce: A 30-year-old CEO (NYT)
• The Californication of American restaurants (Eater)
• Is sugar toxic? Here's the actual truth about the sweet substance (Inverse)
• The entire west coast goes cage-free on eggs as Oregon signs on (Bloomberg)
• Alberta beef producers say their 'ahead of the curve' as consumers look for sustainable meat (CBC)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• How Big Tobacco hooked children on sugary drinks (NYT)
• Sainsbury's to publish price cut data if Asda merger goes ahead (The Guardian)
• The clever way Walmart is trying to beat Amazon (Fast Company)
• The first gene-edited food is now being served (Wired)
• From the archives (2017): Hot, sticky, and sweet: Who knew you could learn so much about Southern identity just by thinking - really hard - about doughnuts (Bitter Southerner)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Rite Aid and Albertsons agree to call off merger in face of opposition (NYT)
• The primal pleasure and brutal history of sugar (Eater)
• Walmart co-leads $500M investment in Chinese online grocery grocery service Dada-JD Daojia (Tech Crunch)
• Petco partners with Canadian Tire (Retail Dive)
• From the archives (2015): How Indra Nooyi turned design thinking into strategy (HBR)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Former Sears Canada boss Calvin McDonald named new CEO at Lululemon (CBC)
• 'Scraper' bots and the secret internet arms race (Wired)
• IKEA's strategy in India: If we build it, they will come (WSJ)
• Kroger shrugs at Prime Day sales numbers (Bloomberg)
• The 13-year-old who built a best-selling lemonade brand (BBC)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Walmart weighs a bid from Capital One for credit cards (Bloomberg)
• P&G's challenge: Selling a product that women wish they didn't need (WSJ)
• In town with little water, Coca-Cola is everywhere. So is diabetes (NYT)
• How to lose your best employees (HBR)
• Tim Hortons plans 1500 store expansion in China (The Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• In sweeping war on obesity, Chile slays Tony the Tiger (NYT)
• Starboard to launch proxy fight to replace entire Newell Brands board (WSJ) 
• Tesco 'planning' on discount chain  to take on Aldi and Lidl (The Guardian)
• Talenti gelato is delicious - if you can open the lid (WSJ)
• Hudson's Bay says it turns down Signa's offer for Kaufhof chain (Reuters) 

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Walmart opens new front in growing battle over e-commerce (Globe and Mail)
• Loyal Sam's Club members lament the loss of a trusted friend (NYT)
• Please do not assault the towering robot that roams Walmart (Wired)
• Do soda taxes work? Only if retailers raise prices (HBR)
• Final Sears Canada stores shuttered for good (CBC)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Despite industry efforts, Americans keep drinking in the sugar (WSJ)
• Is that champagne in your sorbet? Prove it (NYT)
• Save-On-Foods offers gift card following Loblaw bread controversy (Globe and Mail)
• Home Depot has considered buying a $9 billion logistics company so Amazon doesn't (Recode)
• The 25 biggest food news stories of 2017 (Food and Wine)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Food-makers are taking salt and sugar out of food. But they're adding fat (Washington Post)
• Toblerone vs. Poundland (NYT)
• The inflated promise of the American food hall (The New Yorker)
• This doughnut and biscuit chain is about to be everywhere (Eater)
• From the archives: The last days of Target (Canadian Business)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Sugar industry long downplayed potential harms (NYT)
• Loblaw releases second annual Canadian food trends list (Loblaw)
• Nestle's baby food diet (Bloomberg)
• Walmart is inventing foods in a secret lab in Arkansas (Food and Wine)
• Auchan/Alibaba deal turns up the heat on Carrefour in China (Reuters)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Blue Apron files for an IPO (NYT)
• Walmart begins testing associate delivery (Walmart)
• Sears and the demise of an American retail icon (Washington Post)
• Sugar as a slow poison (Miles Kimball)
• One of Crispr's creators faces her fears (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• It's probably more accurate to call breakfast the most dangerous meal of the day (Washington Post)
• 20 years on, Amazon and Jeff Bezos prove naysayers wrong (NYT)
• Britain's Sainsbury's looks to fashion instead of food (BoF)
• Lowe's is giving its workers exoskeletons to help lift very heavy things (Quartz)
• A decision support system for retail assortment planning (Retail Category Management)

Stephan's Friday Picks

• Aldi raises stakes in U.S. price war with Walmart (Reuters)
• The curse of the consultants is spreading fast (Financial Times)
• Coke's new CEO must win over a new generation that shuns sugar (Bloomberg)
• Amazon goes north, forcing Canadian retailers out of hibernation (Bloomberg)
• Adidas sells golf business for $425 million (ESPN)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Amazon's living lab: Re-imagining retail on Seattle streets (NYT)
• What's next for Europe's shrinking grocery stores (Forbes)
• Sugar traders brace for wild ride as surplus hangs on weather (Bloomberg)
• Do sin taxes really change consumer behaviour (K@W)
• Too much water is diluting juice from world's No. 1 orange crop (Bloomberg)